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Emergency Management Specialist (Risk Analyst)
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Posted today
About the Role
As a Risk Analyst within FEMA's Resilience, Engineering and Modeling Division, the ideal candidate will have expertise on a wide range of highly complex initiatives focused on natural hazard risk assessment, risk analysis, loss modeling, geospatial sciences, and technology integration and utilization, while managing complex projects with numerous stakeholders and varied strategic objectives.
What You'll Do
- →What will I do in this position if hired?
- →In this position, you will serve as an Emergency Management Specialist (Risk Analyst).
- →Typical assignments include: Serving as a project leader and point of coordination for FEMA programs pertaining to risk assessment.
- →Serving as a risk assessment program advisor for FEMA Headquarters and FEMA Regions, along with other Federal Agencies, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial, Non-Governmental Organizations, academia, and the private sector.
- →Providing analytical and advisory services in the following program areas: risk analysis, geospatial modeling, data management, technological innovation, tools development (Hazus), interagency coordination, and development of loss modeling methodological guidance.
- →Managing in the coordination of a variety of complex and typically long-term contract management activities that are in support of risk assessment strategic objectives, while ensuring contract requirements are adequately outlined in the scope of work, schedule, and performance evaluations.
- →Writing and/or editing technical materials including reports of research findings, technical manuals and specifications, and explaining technical aspects of agency risk assessment programs to those affected.
- →What else do I need to know?
- →At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management.
- →Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites.
- →All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description.
- →Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
Requirements
- ✓To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy.
- ✓To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for moderate risk as a condition of placement into this position.
- ✓This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information).
- ✓For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations.
- ✓Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below.
- ✓Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
- ✓You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- ✓Selective Service registration required.
- ✓Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements.
- ✓You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- ✓You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time.
- ✓Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.
- ✓No Educational Substitution: There is no educational substitution for this position, and you must meet the qualifications listed in the "requirements" section of this announcement.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
Personality Fit
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